Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-19

get honest work, and with their families ar
aggre cation of twenty millions that are or
the verge of starvation. Something wrong
most certainly. In some way there will be
4 new apportionment. Many of the mil
lionaire estates will crack to pieces on the
dissipation of grandchildren, and then dis
solve into the possession of the masses who
now have an insufficlency.
What, You say, will become of the expen
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted
to debasing amusements ? They will be.
come schools, art galleries, museums, gym
nasiums, and churches. The world is al
ready getting disgusted with many of these
amusements, and no wonder What an
importation of unclean theatrical stuff we
have within the last few years had brought
TO our shores And professors of religion
patronizing such things Having sold out
to the devil, why don't you deliver the
goods and go over to him publicly, body,
mind, and soul, and withdraw your name
from Christian churches, and say, "Know
all the world by these presents that am a
patron of uncleanness and child of hell. !"
Sworn to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
But at last the tide has turned, and the
despisers of purity overdid the matter. A
foreign actress of base morals arrived in
tending to make the tour of the States, but
the remaining deceDcy of our cities rose up
and cancelled the contracts, and drove her
back from our American stage, woman
ft for neither continent. In the name of
Almighty God / take these denominations
by the throat. If you think these offences
are to go on forever. you do not know who
he Lord is. God will not wait for the Day
Of Judgment. All these palaces of sin will
become palaces of righteousness. They
will come into the possession of those
strong for virtue and strong for God. 'He
shall divide the spoil with the strong.''
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tions of the earth by reason of metals and
rare woods, and inexhaustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
good because they are not ready to be di-
vided. Wait until all the doors that Liv-
ingstone opened in Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor with his band of self
supporting missionaries have done their
work, and the Ashentees and Senegam-
bans shall know Christ as well as you
know Him, and there shall be on the banks
of the Nile and the Niger higher civilisa-
ton than is now to be found on the banks
of the Hudson, then Christ will divide up
that continent among his friends. Wait
until China, which is half as large as all
Europe, shall have developed her capaci-
ties for rice, and tea, and sugar among the
edibles, and her amethyst, and sapphire,
End topaz, and opal, and jasper, and por-
phyry among precious stones, and her rose
wood, and ebony, and camphor, and varnish
trees among precious woods, and turned up
from her depths half dozen Pennsylvania
Of coal and iron. and twenty Nevadas of
silver, and fifty CALIFORNIA; of gold, and her
five hundred million of people shall be
evangelised; then the Lord will divide it
up among the good.
If my text be not deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming when
al the farms will be owned by Christian
farmers, and all the commerce controlled
by Christian merchants, and all the author
ity held by Christian officials, and all the
ships commanded by Christian captains,
and all the universities under the instruc-
tion of Christion professors; Christian
Kings, Christian Presidents, Christian Gov.
mon Councils. Yet, what securing out!
what an uptnrning! what demolition!
what resurrection must precede this new
apportionment!
I do not underrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully es
timating the vastness of his foes and pre-
pared his men for their greatest triumph
by saying: Tomorrow King Juba will be
here with thirty thousand horses, one hun
dred thousand skirmishers, and three hun
dred elephants" l do not underrate the
vast forces Of Sin and Death, but do you
know who commands us? Jehovah Jileh.
And the reserve corps behind US are all the
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and thuuderbolt. The good work of the
worlds redemption is going on every min
ute. Never so many splendid men and
glorious women on the side of right as to-
day. Never so many good people as now.
Diogenes has been spoken of as wise man
because he went with lantern at MONDAY,
saying be was looking for an honest man.
If he had turnad his lantern towards him.
self he might have discovered crank
Honest men by ten thousand! Through the
International Series of Sunday School Les
sons the next generation all through Chris
tendon are going to be wiser than any gen.
Grafton since the world stood. The king
dom is coming God can do it. No house.
wife with chamois cloth ever polished a
silver teaspoon with more ease than Christ
will rub off from this world the tarnish,
and brighten it up till it grows like heaven,
and then the glorious apportionment, for
my text is reinforced by score of o'her
texts, when it says of Christ: "He shall di-
vide the spoil with the strong"
"But," you say, 'sthat is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that time
shall have passed up into another existence,
and 1 shall get no advantage from that new
apportionment." Alb, you have only driven
me to the other more exciting and trans
porting consideration, and that is that
Christ is going to divide up heaven in the
same way. There are old estates in the
celestial world that have been in the pos
session of its inhabitants for thousands of
years, and they shall remain as they are.
There are old family mansions in heaven
filled with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven out. Many
of the vicGors from earth have already got
their palaces, and they are pointed out to
those newly arrived. Soon after our get
ting there we will ask to be shown the Apos-
tolic residences, and ask where dees Paul
live and John, and shown the patriarchal
residences, and shall say: "Where does
Abraham live, or Jacob?'' and shown the
martyr residences and say: "Where does
John Huss live, and Ridley?" We will
want to see the boulevards where the
chariots of coDquerors roll. will want to
see the gardens where the princes walk.
We will want to see Music Row, where
Handel, and Hayden, and Mozart, and
Charles Wesley, and Thomas Hastings, and
Bradbury have their homes, out of their
windows, ever and anon, rolling some snatch
of an earthly oratorio or hymn transported
with the composer. We will want to see
Revival Terrace, where Whitefield, and
Nettleton, and Payson, and Rowland Hill,
and Charles Finney, and other giants of
soul-reaping are resting from their almost
supernatural labors, their doors thronged
with converts just arrived, coming to report
themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset and like the
leaves for number are the celestial homes
yet to be awarded when Christ to you and
millions of others shall divide the spoil.
What do you want there? You shall have
it. An orchard? There it is; twelve man.
ner of fruit and fruit every month. Do
you want river scenery? Take your choice
on the banks of the river in longer, wider,
deeper roll than Danube, or Amazon, or
Mississippi if mingled in one and emptying
into the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do
you want your kindred back again? Go